Controlling conversations: Turns, topics and interpersonal control

Topic Management, Shared Knowledge, and Accommodation: A Study of Communication Adaptability

“…Being content laden, topic is to a great extent knowledge-based. It is associated with basic information processing, such as message interpretation q d comprehension (Pianalp & 'Tracy, 1980), interaction regulaDownloaded by [Monash University Library] (Maynard, 1980;Maynard & Zimmerman, 19841, and interpersonal control in interaction (Reichman, 1978;Cappella, 1985;No fsinger , 1988/89;Palmer, 1989). All of these also directly relate to specifications in CAT.…”

Behavioral and judged coordination in adult informal social interactions: Vocal and kinesic indicators.

“…Other specific behaviors, such as verbal ones, may be highly relevant; too, very general patterns of coordination may lie at the heart of the judged coordination construct. This study assesses neither verbal nor gestalt aspects of coordination, even though the former can be central to the judgments persons make about one another during interaction (Palmer, 1989;van Lear, 1991), and the latter to a part of the perceptual filter of observers (Baron, Amazeen, & Beek, 1994;Newtson, 1994).…”

Assessing group-level participation in fluid teams: Testing a new metric

“…Some studies have examined the tendency for certain team members to dominate the conversation, whereas others have presented and tested computational models of participation and turn taking (e.g., Stasser & Vaughan, 1996). For example, the longer a conversational partner talked during a speaking turn, the more he or she was perceived as interpersonally dominant (e.g., Folger, 1980;Palmer, 1989). Other research has examined dyad-level dominance as pairs of messages, such as when one speaker makes a domineering message and the other speaker responds with a submissive statement (Courtright, Millar, & Rogers-Millar, 1979).…”